Having a bad low

I got up to go to the bathroom, and as always when I get up in the middle of the night, I checked my CGM, and it said 58 and dropping. OK. The bad part was the arrow pointed southeast. So not dropping fast. And then I looked at my pump, and somehow, in my sleep, I had programmed 298 carbs, and a square-wave bolus of 7.5 units at 1 AM. And I had told it my BG was 79.

Well, I better check it on my meter, and I'm looking at 48 with a significant amount of insulin on board, although I don't know how much. I suppose I could find that out on my Medtronic 722, but I THINK that involves programming another bolus, and I don't want to do that. And I'm NOT feeling the low, but if both the CGM and my meter are telling me I'm low, I think it's true.

So I'm sitting here at the computer eating carbs, which is a good thing to do, but the scary part is HOW in the world did I do that in my sleep? What if I hadn't woken up to pee?

So I'm kind of freaked out right now, and scared I'll do it again. And because it was a square-wave, I suspect I'm not done with it. :-(

Hi Natalie. Before you go to bed at night, you could set the "child lock" option, which you might not be able to torn off in your sleep. The only other thing I can think of is to go on MDI for a few days to deprogram your mind. What a nightmare thing to have happen!

Hi Natalie,Yes this has happened to me before as well. I think the lock is a great idea. I think I'll start using it also. I can remember years ago waking up and my husband telling me that I was trying to check my blood glucose with my baby's pacifier. Ya just never know what we do when not all there. lol!

Hi, all, I'm fine this morning, except for dealing with rebound high (yeah, I ate too much to correct, but I was so scared about the ridiculous amount of carbs I programmed in) and then correcting for the high, I plummeted again, but being more careful with this one. And I think the child lock is a GREAT idea! I've never done anything like this before, but if it can happen once, it can happen again, and it scares me to think of what would have happened if I had not needed to pee! So I will figure out how to use the child lock, starting tonight! :-)

Hi Natalie, Do you think you actually programed it in a dream state or do you think it was just a series of unfortunate button pushes. I haven't used the lock keypad feature of my pump but after reading this I think I might.

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